Improvement in compound fabrics for the production of shirt-collars



UNITED STATES Para on.

WALTER HUNT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO WILLIAM E. LOQKWOOD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN COMPOUND FABRICS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SHlRT-COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 89,768, dated May 4, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER HUNT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Production of a Fabric for Making Shirt-Gollars, Bosoms, Waistbands, &c. and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in combining .and uniting two or more thicknesses may be done by a process similar to that of making pasteboard, viz., by sizing each thickness of cloth with a brush or otherwise, layin g one upon theother upon a smooth table, and pressing them together by means of a roller, and when sufficiently dry polished by means of a press, polishing-calender, mangle,

or smoothingirons, or other similar process.

The most advantageous process, however, in forming said fabric is that of passing the pieces of cambric to be united separately through the sizing or starching vats, then uniting the ends and passing the whole together through a rolling-press, so graduated as toremove the superfluous starch and unite the whole into one sheet or piece, which, after being suspended and sufficiently dried, may be ironed or polished in the manner above described or otherwise.

Admitting that the same materials are used in making collars by my process that are used in making them in the ordinary way, it will be obvious that my plan of first preparing and finishing the fabric in the piece, as above described, of any required quantity, will greatly facilitate the -work of the manufacture, inasmuch as the uniting and ironing or polishing.

in the larger pieces, which may be cut out into collars with greater advantage by machinery than can possibly be done from the plain cloth, and ironed separately in the usual way. Consequently this invention will be found peculiarly advantageous -to the extensive manufacturer of said articles.

I am aware that two or more thicknesses of muslin or linen have been united and made into a fabric for envelopes, book-covers, playing-cards, and other like purposes; and I am also aware that a cloth and paper fabric, water-p'roofed or enameled, has been used for making waterproof shirt-collars, &c., as described in my patent for the same, dated the 25th of July, 1854, neither of which abovenamcd fabrics do I claim in this application, inasmuch as neither of them were intended or suitable for the purposes to which my hereinclaimed collar fabricis peculiarly adapted. As, for instance, from this fabric collars can be cut out,'the edges turned in, and stitched by machinery, ready for use, without requiring any laundry-work whatever until they are worn and require washing, &c., for which they are as well adapted as any other hand-made collars, which is not the case with the said fabric composed of cloth and paper, while the ordinary envelope-fabric is entirely unsuitable for said purposes.

As a further evidence of the patentability of thisinvention, so far as novelty is 'concerned, I believe it will be granted that a prepared muslin or linen fabric cannot be found in any market or establishment, (my own excepted,) which is suitable to be cut out and worked into shirt-collars, ready for use, without requiring any additional laundry-work in their completion. Granting this to be the fact, and that the fabric thus prepared is suita- 'ble and facilitates the manufacture ofthe ar ticles in question, as before stated, the validity of my claims will be readily apparent. K

Independent of the adaptation of this fabric to stitched collars of the finest and most expensive kind, a cheaper muslin fabric can be made on this plan, which will be well adapted to the manufacture of a cheaper seamless collar, united by means-of eyelets, &c., as described in my application for a patent for the same, which application bears even date herewith, and which collar, when worn and soiled, can be stitched or scanned to advantage, and then washed and ironed as usual.

\Vhat I claim as my invenrion, and desire to secure by Letters Patent as a new article of man ufacture, is-

A fabric for making; shirt-collars, composed of two or more thicknesses of muslin, cainbric, I

or other suitable cloth, united and finished by the web or quantity, substantially as herein described, whereby the necessity of sewing or stitching the collars, and of subsequent washin g, starching, and ironing is dispensed with.

VALTER HUNT. itnesses:

B. S. COOPER, W. D. WIsNER. 

